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About Trevor Tebbs, Ph.D.

Circle of Healing practitioner Dr. Trevor Tebbs is somewhat unusual! His professional activities encompass a number of different worlds.

He is equally comfortable teaching young people Educational Psychology as a college professor, working with parents and teachers as an Educational Consultant, working with individuals across the lifespan in a clinical environment as a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist or painting a watercolor.

A common factor in dealing with people is his passionate interest and expertise in the wide, often extremely complex, array of educational and social emotional issues associated with high levels of intellectual and creative ability.

Trevorâ€™s initial training was in England as a regular and special education teacher. Over the years he has experienced teaching in a wide array of settings on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been vice-principal in an English special school for children with severe cognitive and physical disability and Assistant Director of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Honors Program. At college level he has taught a diversity of courses including the exploration of Arthurian myths and realities in ancient texts and historical places in England and Wales, Art Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Drawing and Sculpture.

After developing a keen interest in the exceptionally able, Trevor discovered a significant lack of knowledge and understanding existed regarding this population. The problem motivated him to learn more. His graduate work at the University of Connecticut involved studying with Dr. Joseph Renzulli, world-renown leader in gifted education based at the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRCG/T). This experience prepared him to address the educational and social emotional needs of gifted and talented children, their parents and teachers in a number of different ways, including counseling.

In the clinical context, Trevor helps clients – pre-school aged children through to adults, examine their potential for personal transformation and experience the psychological healing that accompanies a raised awareness of self. Emotional and other â€œintensityâ€ is often associated with giftedness. In this regard, Trevor is reliant upon the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski, whose two theories – OverExcitability and Positive Disintegration, are exceptionally insightful when considering the development of full intellectual potential and emotional well-being.

If there is time to spare, Trevor enjoys painting watercolors or working with pastel. He especially loves land and seascapes. In the past he has had major exhibitions of his work, notably a one-man exhibition of his watercolors at the International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington D.C.

Both me (57 ) and my son (23) could benefit from the knowledge, experience and compassion of Trevor Tebbs. My son is a senior in college and just now beginning to understand the value of his education and the work required.

I have been underemployed my whole life: unfulfilled, lack of money and so on and have experienced deep depression and anxiety. Since hitting bottom ten years ago, I have been in recovery. There are many aspects in my life for which I am thankful while thinking about all my alternative life possibilities.

Dear Prof.Tebbs
your article in the German DGhK paper was the best I ever read about gifted children within 14 years I am interested .I got 2 gifted sons and I am talking to other parents since 12 years.
Thank you so much.
All the best Barbara MÃ¶llmann

Thank you so much for the second time.
My gifted brother-a student drop out- talked about my son concerning school shooting in Erfurt Germany 2002 in the internet. Reading your second article in the German Paper of Gifted Education in 2013 I don´t want to know what could have happened if I had not send my son to a school for the gifted in scotland at the age of 15 (there was only one school for the gifted in Germany but they had no vacancies) in 1998. My son is very happy and thankful now (30 years) And I am still talking to other parents…
Thank you once again
Best regards Barbara Möllmann